Securitisation, development and the invisibility of gender

Lusby, Stephanie

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“…G. Hobbis did not work directly with these security guards. However, in the context of PNG, Lusby () suggests that security guards often bring home the violence they experience and legitimately participate in at their workplace. Securitisation discourses reinforce narratives that emphasise a need for violence to ‘correct’ social problems, including ‘wrongful’ behaviour by women.…”

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Mobile phones, gender‐based violence, and distrust in state services: Case studies from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

Hobbis

2018

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper examines the potential benefits and pitfalls of mobile phones for accessing social services, particularly in response to gender‐based violence, in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic field research, I show how mobile phones increase rather than decrease perceived distances between social service providers and those they intend to serve. Mobile phones exaggerate the visibility of the shortcomings of the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea states and solidify an already entrenched distrust in the state and state services. This distrust is accentuated in experiences with mobile phone‐based mediations of gender‐based violence. Despite the positive influences of mobile phones, they are also recognised as conduits of violence. As such, mobile phones are not only morally ambivalent technologies but also, at times, actively disliked and their use discouraged. This challenges the optimism that surrounds many information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects. When assessing the potentials, successes, and failures of ICT4D programmes, there is a need to pay more attention to the consequences of ‘negative’ or ‘unreliable’ usages of mobile phones as relational technologies.

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Mobile phones, gender‐based violence, and distrust in state services: Case studies from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

Hobbis

2018

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“…This need is supported by Macintyre (2017: 7), who argues that men's superior social, political and economic status in contemporary Oceanic states reflects the greater number of men who achieved formal education in the years following independence. Anthropologists Stephanie Lusby (2017) and Jenny Munro (2017) further argue that the differences in educational attainment of men and women in the past 50 years have contributed to juxtaposing attitudes that educated men should navigate cultural interactions with modernisation while women should maintain 'tradition'.…”

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Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Craney¹

2022

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YOUTH IN FIJI AND SOLOMON ISLANDSxiv essentialisation of each issue and the failure of interventions to go beyond paper commitments. This was how the seeds were planted for my decision to formally research youth livelihoods, leadership and civic engagement in Oceania. It was also where I first began to form my conceptual framework for understanding these issues through a 'holistic livelihoods' approach and to develop the contention that young Pacific peoples' lives are marked by their 'structural minimisation'-two concepts that I discuss further in the book proper.1 Also known as Fiji Baat (Willans and Prasad 2021).

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Weaponising Alleged Sexual Assault on Manus: A Gendered Timeline of Political Discourse in the Australian Media, 2012–2019

Rooney

2022

SSRN Journal

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Securitisation, development and the invisibility of gender

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Mobile phones, gender‐based violence, and distrust in state services: Case studies from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

Mobile phones, gender‐based violence, and distrust in state services: Case studies from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Weaponising Alleged Sexual Assault on Manus: A Gendered Timeline of Political Discourse in the Australian Media, 2012–2019

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